February 15 » The association football club Alianza Lima is founded in Lima, Peru, under the name Sport Alianza.
June 11 » The boundaries of the Colony of New Zealand are extended by the UK to include the Cook Islands.
August 14 » The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
September 17 » Second Boer War: Boers capture a squadron of the 17th Lancers at the Battle of Elands River.
October 12 » President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the "Executive Mansion" to the White House.
November 13 » The 1901 Caister lifeboat disaster.
Day of marriage May 7, 1927
The temperature on May 7, 1927 was between 9.8 °C and 23.6 °C and averaged 16.9 °C. There was 12.9 hours of sunshine (85%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
May 1 » The Union Labor Life Insurance Company is founded by the American Federation of Labor.
May 4 » The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is incorporated.
May 9 » Old Parliament House, Canberra officially opens.
September 18 » The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.
October 25 » The Italian luxury liner SS Principessa Mafalda sinks off the coast of Brazil, killing 314.
November 21 » Columbine Mine massacre: Striking coal miners are allegedly attacked with machine guns by a detachment of state police dressed in civilian clothes.
Day of death June 20, 1942
The temperature on June 20, 1942 was between 4.4 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 14.3 hours of sunshine (85%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
January 20 » World War II: At the Wannsee Conference held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee, senior Nazi German officials discuss the implementation of the "Final Solution to the Jewish question".
March 8 » World War II: Imperial Japanese Army forces gave ultimatum to Dutch East Indies Governor General Jonkheer Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer and KNIL Commander in Chief Lieutenant General Hein Ter Poorten, to unconditionally surrender.
April 8 » World War II: Siege of Leningrad: Soviet forces open a much-needed railway link to Leningrad.
May 26 » World War II: The Battle of Gazala takes place.
July 16 » Holocaust: Vel' d'Hiv Roundup (Rafle du Vel' d'Hiv): The government of Vichy France orders the mass arrest of 13,152 Jews who are held at the Vélodrome d'Hiver in Paris before deportation to Auschwitz.
September 21 » The Holocaust in Poland: At the end of Yom Kippur, Germans order Jews to permanently move from Konstantynów to Biała Podlaska.
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